Powell River
Tucked away on the upper Sunshine Coast, Powell River is a city of 13,000 people. It's not on many travel itineraries. Long dominated by the pulp and paper and forestry industries, it has started to become a centre for ecotourism with its abundance of outdoor recreation opportunities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 13,200 residents
- Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Powell River, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Powell River Airport and Westview ferry terminal.
Powell River Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: waferboard, CC BY 2.0.
Powell River Airport is located adjacent to Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. In 2011, the airport had approximately 39,422 passenger departures and arrivals.
Westview ferry terminal
Transport stop
Photo: Redonebird, Copyrighted free use.
Westview is a ferry terminal in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Malaspina Strait, part of the Strait of Georgia, on the northern Sunshine Coast and provides connections to Texada Island and Vancouver Island.
Powell River
- Categories: city in British Columbia and locality
- Location: Powell River, Qathet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.8357° or 49° 50′ 8″ northLongitude
-124.5244° or 124° 31′ 28″ westPopulation
13,200Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)IATA airport code
YPWUnited Nations Location Code
CA POWOpen location code
84XQRFPG+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 1790445554OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6112608Wikidata ID
Q599678
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Powell River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بويل ريفر، كولومبيا البريطانية”
- Arabic: “بويل ريفر”
- Asturian: “Powell River”
- Bengali: “পাওয়েল রিভার”
- Cebuano: “Powell River”
- Chinese: “鮑威爾河 (不列顛哥倫比亞)”
- Chinese: “鮑威爾河市”
- Chinese: “鮑威爾里弗”
- Chinese: “鲍威尔河 (不列颠哥伦比亚)”
- Chinese: “鲍威尔河”
- Chinese: “鲍威尔河市”
- Chinese: “鲍威尔里弗”
- Czech: “Powell River”
- Dagbani: “Powell River”
- Danish: “Powell River”
- Dutch: “Powell River”
- Finnish: “Powell River”
- French: “Powell River”
- German: “Powell River”
- Greek: “Πάουελ Ρίβερ”
- Gujarati: “પોવેલ રિવર”
- Hindi: “पावेल रिवर”
- Indonesian: “Powell River”
- Italian: “Powell River”
- Japanese: “パウエル・リバー”
- Japanese: “パウエルリバー”
- Kannada: “ಪೊವೆಲ್ ನದಿ”
- Korean: “포웰 리버”
- Latvian: “Pauelriversa”
- Lithuanian: “Pauel Riversas”
- Malay: “Powell River”
- Marathi: “पॉवेल नदी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Powell River”
- Persian: “پاول ریور، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Polish: “Powell River”
- Portuguese: “Powell River”
- Russian: “Пауэлл Ривер”
- Russian: “Пауэлл-Ривер”
- Serbian: “Pauel River”
- Serbian: “Powell River, British Columbia”
- Serbian: “Пауел Ривер”
- Sinhala: “පවල් ගංගාව”
- Slovak: “Powell River”
- Spanish: “Powell River”
- Swedish: “Powell River, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Powell River”
- Tamil: “போவெல்ல் ரிவேர்”
- Telugu: “పావెల్ రివర్”
- Thai: “พาวเวล ริเวอร์”
- Turkish: “Powell River”
- Ukrainian: “Пауелл-Ривер”
- Urdu: “پاول ریور”
- Vietnamese: “Powell River”
- Western Panjabi: “پاول رور”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Powell River”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.